News 2004-2005

October 15, 2004

Spread 3.17.3 released

It can be downloaded here.

The 3.17.3 release includes a few enhancements and a number of fixes. They include fixing some daemon crashes, a substantial decrease in memory usage under some scenarios, new build files for VC++.NET, a Spreadsptmonitor program that works on Windows, and some small cleanups and stability improvements. So we highly encourage everyone to upgrade to this release.

March 5, 2004 (April 14)

Spread 3.17.2 released

It can be downloaded here.

This release includes a number of bugfixes, including some that fix daemon crashes, a decrease in message token overhead, and some small cleanups and stability improvements. So we highly encourage everyone to upgrade to this release.

The 3.17.2 release has no new features or external api changes.

One thing to note is the parsing of the spread.conf file has become more strict, and some config files that would parse without error will now cause Spread to fail to start and report a configuration file error. Since all of these cases could cause the daemon to misbehave or crash at runtime (but not at startup) this change increases stability by checking for misconfigured setups before they cause unpredictable behavior.

July 21, 2003

Website Updated

The spread.org website was updated today with some new links to Spread tools and software, and some additional documentation links and information.